U.S. peacekeeper found dead in Kosovo ("liberators" destiny)

[Andrej Tisma]

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U.S. peacekeeper found dead in Kosovo
By Associated Press, 12/6/2003 11:10

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PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) A U.S. peacekeeper was found dead with a
gunshot wound in eastern Kosovo, the U.S. Army said Saturday.

The soldier, identified as Sgt. Daryl Brooks, 43, was found in a concrete
bunker inside the U.S. military base Camp Monteith on Thursday, said Sgt.
William Houk, a U.S. military spokesman.

Brooks was found by a soldier from the same unit, the Army said in a
statement.

No further details were available, but the statement said ''the incident is
under investigation.''

Brooks, of Philadelphia, a personnel noncommissioned officer with the
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion 111th Infantry, is
survived by his mother and two sisters, the statement added.

''We would like to express our sincere condolences to the family of Sgt.
Brooks,'' Brig. Gen. Jerry G. Beck, Jr., the U.S. commander in Kosovo, said
in the statement. ''The Army family has lost a great soldier.''

About 2,500 U.S. peacekeepers serve in the 20,000-strong NATO-led
peacekeeping force in Kosovo. The force has been deployed here since
mid-1999 when an alliance air war halted Serb forces' crackdown on
independence-seeking ethnic Albanians.